Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

- Hans Arp

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

- Hans Arp

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

- Hans Arp

We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict.…

- Hans Arp

the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bel…

- Hans Arp

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

- Hans Arp

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

- Hans Arp

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and …

- Hans Arp

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

- Hans Arp